The American Dream means being part of a society that allows you to be or do whatever you want, and to have a sense that your individual optimism and hard work will be rewarded. It exists outside of the U.S. as well as inside. People continue to come here because they want to improve their lives, they want to be able to support themselves and they want to live in freedom. A lot of people who criticize this country still send their children here to study.

Freedon succeeds from the moment people stop looking to others to improve their lives and start taking responsibility.

I think that there is never an indispensable leader, you know? I think that there is a time with dignity that one needs to leave.

The reason I made women's issues central to American foreign policy, was not because I was a feminist, but because we know that societies are more stable if women are politically and economically empowered.

Women can't do everything at the same time, we need to understand milestones in our lives comes in segments.

It is an unfortunate fact that in many parts of the world women are considered property. An awful lot of injustice is obviously due to that; not just women's status in the home, but all kinds of laws that are even more discriminating.

What a blast it is to be here with Michael Moore.